Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost from sight in deepest Siberia for three weeks, Henry Wallace flew into Tihwa in a high wind of publicity...
Premier Godbout flew to Ottawa, talked to Liberal chieftains, as quickly flew back to Quebec City. He summoned his Cabinet, then announced that Bouchard had been fired from a lush job to which Godbout had appointed him only two months ago. The job: the $18,000-a-year chairmanship of Quebec's Hydro Commission, which recently took over one of the biggest private power companies in Canada...
TIME'S Stockholm Correspondent John Scott flew to Helsinki last week on his first visit since Finland's spring negotiations with Russia (TIME, April 24). He found the Russians still seeking a political solution that required the least military expenditure, the Finns still convinced that they had a bargaining position despite the Red Army's advance (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Cabled Scott...
Recently several generals flew thousands of miles around the world just to confer a half day with him. They wanted to launch an offensive, needed Lutes to tell them how soon it could be done. Lutes had the answers ready in a few hours. The generals flew off. Before their plane left the ground, General Lutes's well-oiled supply machine was busy on the battle to come...
...Baker, 43, the new route looked mighty good. In 1929 he had begun operating a charter-and-barnstorming company near Chicago; five years later switched to St. Petersburg, Fla. There National's assets consisted of tireless George Baker and a rickety, single-engined Ryan cabin plane which he flew from cow pastures at Jacksonville to empty lots at Daytona Beach...